Waves in shallow water off west coast of India during the onset of summer monsoon

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 817-824

  Sanil Kumar, V ^a   Sajiv Philip, C ^a   Balakrishnan Nair, T N ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b INDIAN NATIONAL CENTRE FOR OCEAN INFORMATION SERVICES   (India)

Author keywords

History of geophysics (Ocean sciences)

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER; MONSOON; SUMMER; SWELL; WAVE DIRECTION; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE PROPAGATION; WESTERLY; WIND VELOCITY; WIND WAVE;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 78449297069     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-28-817-2010     Document Type: Article

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